ENCLAVE LAND ART
Edition
2023
CONCEPT OF THE RESIDENCY
Aristotle
Until the emergence and growing strength of the concept itself, and thus the detachment from the necessity of beauty to consider something as art, color and composition were the elements that enchanted the spectator in a first lecture. From them, symbology, history, and meaning completed the information to build a well-founded criterion about a proposal.
In the landscape of the dry riverbed of the Escalona River in Quesa, just before reaching the reservoir, a combination of vibrant colors segmented in layers caught our attention during an initial visit. These are areas where the hills have a more pronounced red color compared to clay.
This first impression led us to believe that there might be an effect caused by chemical industrial residues or waste present in the soil, resulting in artificial colors.
The initial visual reference invited us to confirm our suspicions and delve deeper into understanding the cause.
We discovered that a few meters from these hills, there were recent remnants of human intervention hidden among shrubs and trees.
In the early XXth century, industrialization and the era of mass transportation accelerated human impact in search of soil resources. Between the 50’s and 70’s, the Cerro Negro quarry in Quesa was operated to extract diabase as sand and gravel. These stones are highly durable and have a gray tone, used for securing train tracks.
Nowadays, the quarry is completely abandoned, covered by vegetation, and with no traces of any structures or machinery that could provide evidence of past activity.
Furthermore, we consulted geologists for additional information. We discovered that the origin of the colors of the hills lies in the composition of sediments from what was an ocean billions of years ago. The seabed remained on the surface due to water evaporation and tectonic movements.
The reddish color of the hills is caused by the rusting of iron present in the area, combined with clay and plaster. This condition gives rise to a series of minerals with whimsical shapes and varying colors.
These two contrasting aspects of the landscape invite us to contemplate how nature has uncovered aesthetically pleasing phenomena to hide, blend in, or absorb human traces. This contrast between the inward excavation of the soil and the emerging colored phenomena resulting from tectonic collisions of continents can be seen as a collision transformed into chromatic poetry and mineral contrast.
In both cases, there is a common element: nature and the passage of time. The whimsical landscape has followed a different rhythm in its evolution, characterized by impermanence. This process of mutation occurs over thousands of years in one case and only a few decades in the other, highlighting the fact that movement does not cease.
As mentioned earlier, time has always been perceived through changes. It is not a linear unit of measurement like the one we commonly use when thinking about history. The rhythm is different, not only in human beings but also in all the elements that make up the reality in which we live.
This is a fact that, as in art, has an initial superficial interpretation. It is when we listen, see, and perceive through our other senses that the nuances and connections appear, composing the puzzle of identity that defines a territory.
ARTISTS
PABLO DÍAZ
BIO
Pablo Díaz (Buenos Aires, 1985) es un músico y artista sonoro versátil de Buenos Aires. Su trabajo se enfoca en el sonido como material artístico, abarcando conciertos, performances e instalaciones. Ha explorado nuevas dimensiones del ritmo y ha colaborado en numerosos proyectos musicales. Sus grabaciones incluyen trabajos en sellos como hatOLOGY y Astral Spirits. Pablo también es docente en EMC Buenos Aires y lidera talleres de improvisación y experimentación sonora.
MANUEL PRADOS
BIO
Manuel Prados (Sevilla, 1981) orienta su práctica a la investigación artística y el arte de contexto, y asume en su obra estéticas y estrategias de disciplinas diversas, realizando trabajos audiovisuales o plásticos, intervenciones o puestas en escena, en estrecha colaboración con otros autores. En paralelo, se ha desempeñado como productor y mediador cultural desde 2005, y es editor de publicaciones de arte.
ALFREDO GUILLAMÓN
BIO
Alfredo Guillamón (Murcia, 1975) es un artista visual e investigador en el Departamento de Escultura de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. Actualmente, realiza su tesis doctoral sobre la interacción artística con el territorio y la representación escultórica del paisaje. Con una formación en Bellas Artes, ha participado en exposiciones en toda España y ha sido seleccionado en festivales de arte emergente. También fue finalista en el 24 Premio Ciudad de Castellón de Artes Plásticas.
Isabel Rodriguez Ramos
BIO
Isabel Rodriguez Ramos (Turín, Italia, 1997). Artista interdisciplinar italo-cubana que se mueve desde las artes plásticas hacia las artes visuales cruzando espacios híbridos de investigación que implican activamente a territorios y comunidades. La trayectoria de la artista encuentra impulso y motivación en la necesidad de investigar la materia como práctica espiritual. La necesidad es establecer un diálogo profundo entre los saberes ancestrales y las exigencias de la contemporaneidad, conciliar la complejidad de la herencia tradicional con el potencial comunicativo de nuevos medios y lenguajes. Sus raíces y el interés por la contaminación se expresan en una investigación estrechamente ligada a la tierra y a los elementos naturales, pero constantemente vuelta hacia el cielo.
JANA BARRERA
BIO
Es diseñadora visual especializada en experiencias interactivas con una fuerte conexión con la danza contemporánea. Su formación en danza, en especial en coreografía e interpretación, ha influido profundamente en su trabajo como diseñadora. También tiene experiencia en diseño de productos y se ha especializado en Diseño Interactivo. Su objetivo es fusionar el arte y la tecnología para crear experiencias visuales y sensoriales impactantes. Le apasiona la innovación y actualmente forma parte del equipo de desarrollo interactivo y diseño visual en Vitamin Studio.
ALEXANDRA KNIE
BIO
Alexandra Knie, una artista alemana, se graduó en la Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft en Bonn, Alemania. Ha recibido becas internacionales, como la beca Neustart Kultur de la Asociación de Artistas Alemanes. Su trabajo ha sido exhibido en varios países, incluyendo Alemania, España, Portugal, los Países Bajos, Estados Unidos y Lituania. Exposiciones destacadas incluyen aquellas en el Kunstmuseum Ahlen (Alemania), el museo August Macke Haus (Alemania), el Centre del Carme (España), el Disseny Hub (España), el museo MAK (Alemania), el museo MKK (Alemania) y el Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Portugal).
Isabel Campos Gil
BIO
Isabel Campos Gil (Ciudad Real, 1992). Visual artist graduated at Fine arts for the faculty of Cuenca. At present race surveys of Doctorate at the UCLM where realises research about the concept of heterotopic space and memory.
At her work, she tries to study the fragility of the space and the interpretations that arise as a result of reading it from its fragmentation, almost as a topographic exercise of appropriation of memory landscapes coming from rests, cracks, fragments or objects. From the relationship given by the language and the space and memory, she creates her artistic work between the limits of the plastic and the conceptual.
PROJECTS
CRONOAURAL
Pablo Díaz
ESPEJO ASTRONÓMICO DE AGUA
Manuel Prados
Líricas Envolventes del río Escalona
Alfredo Guillamón
ORIGEN
Isabel Rodriguez Ramos
ORIGEN it the image of a ritual and circular time, and also an aim to rediscover the ancestral shared heritage and sintonize with the circadian rhythm, an original condition in which humanity and nature, body and space, become inextricably ONE again.
